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Yes, Jesus Would Have Been Branded a Domestic Extremist Today
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Christ, Christmas, civil liberties, civil rights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, domestic terrorists, Dystopia, fascism, Gulags, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nativity, Nazis, police state, Privatized Prisons, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, WWJD
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The Christmas Baby Born in a Police State: Then and Now
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Empire, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged activism, censorship, Christmas, civil liberties, culture, empire, free speech, Jesus, police state, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Stand Up to Tyranny: How to Respond to the Evils of Our Age
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged activism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Covid-19, empire, Jesus, lockdown, Martin Luther King Jr., Militarization, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, spirituality, surveillance state, Torture, war
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What If the Christ Child Had Been Born in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, education, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Christmas, civil liberties, Dystopia, Education, Government, Jesus, Philosophy, police state, Religion, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance state, Technocracy, undocumented immigrants
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Saturday Matinee: Zeitgeist
Source: Top Documentary Films Documentary Zeitgeist: The Movie, authored by Peter Joseph, reflects on the the myth of Jesus, the attacks of 9/11, and the Federal Reserve Bank as well as on a number of conspiracy theories related to those three main topics. It was … Continue reading
Posted in 9/11, Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged 9/11, Documentary, Federal Reserve, Jesus, Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist: The Movie
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David Ray Griffin’s The Christian Gospel for Americans: A Systematic Theology
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain A Review There are very few writers who have done more to try to open the public’s mind to the evil nature of the American empire than David Ray Griffin. His series of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, consciousness, culture, elites, Empire, History, imperialism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, society, Spirituality
Tagged 9/11, activism, American Empire, American exceptionalism, Christianity, culture, David Ray Griffin, elites, empire, imperialism, Jesus, Manifest Destiny, Religion, society, The Christian Gospel for Americans, theology, U.S. History
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The Child That Christmas Forgot: How Would Jesus Fare in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child’s cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven’t forgotten that night down the centuries. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war on terror
Tagged activism, Christmas, Department of Homeland Security, Dissidents, Dystopia, Education, empire, Immigrants, Jesus, Mass Incarceration, police state, Private Prisons, Refugees, Roman Empire, surveillance state, Technocracy, terrorism, WWJD
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And So This Is Christmas
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Christmas Day. Very late on this day and into the morning of the 26th in 1776, George Washington led a surprise night crossing of the Delaware River and bloody pre-dawn attack on unarmed hung-over-from-Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, news, society, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged 1914 Christmas Truce, activism, Christianity, Christmas, corporate media, empire, history, imperialism, Jesus, Morality, Peace, Syria, war, Yemen
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